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Whether you wish to immerse yourself in the story of the Silk Road, explore what being famous has meant through the ages, or read about the Islamic Enlightenment, here you’ll find our brilliant selection of books on world history.  Browse our new and bestselling books on African, American, Asian, Australasian & Pacific, European and Middle Eastern history, as well as the volumes that span the globe and mine our shared, interconnected past. From Peter Frankopan to Yuval Noah Harari, and from William Dalrymple to Max Hastings, let acclaimed authors and historians take you on eye-opening journeys across continents and millennia.     

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Our Best World History Books

Empireland
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Sathnam Sanghera
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The Power of Geography
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The Power of Geography
Tim Marshall
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The Dawn of Everything
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The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
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The Women of Rothschild
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The Women of Rothschild
Natalie Livingstone
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UnPresidented
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UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
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Ask A Historian
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Ask A Historian
Greg Jenner
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Black Spartacus
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
Neil Oliver
£25.00   £21.99
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The Anarchy
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
£10.99
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Ancestors
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Ancestors
Alice Roberts
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The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£14.99
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
£12.99
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The Devil's Atlas
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The Devil's Atlas
Edward Brooke-Hitching
£25.00
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The Library
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The Library
Arthur der Weduwen
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The Presidents
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The Presidents
Iain Dale
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The Ruin of All Witches
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The Ruin of All Witches
Malcolm Gaskill
£20.00
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The Ottomans
The Ottomans
Marc David Baer
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A timely refutation of the prevailing western narrative of the Ottoman Empire, Marc David Baer’s engaging and original new history explores the rich diversity, cultural legacy, ruthless ambition and bloodthirsty rule of a world-changing dynasty from its roots to its demise.
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The Dawn of Everything
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The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
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The Ruin of All Witches
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The Ruin of All Witches
Malcolm Gaskill
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Unwell Women
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Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
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Nuclear Folly
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Nuclear Folly
Serhii Plokhy
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What Is History, Now?
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What Is History, Now?
Suzannah Lipscomb
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First Casualty
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First Casualty
Toby Harnden
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Wildland
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Wildland
Evan Osnos
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Ethel Rosenberg
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Ethel Rosenberg
Anne Sebba
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Alexandria
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Alexandria
Dr Edmund Richardson
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The Black History Book
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen
Linda Colley
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Queens of Jerusalem
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Queens of Jerusalem
Katherine Pangonis
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Collapse
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Vladislav M. Zubok
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The Wood Age
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The Wood Age
Roland Ennos
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The Arab Conquests
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Justin Marozzi
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Fallen Idols
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Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Peter Stanford
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The Power of Geography
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Tim Marshall
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Black Spartacus
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Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
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Himalaya
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Ed Douglas
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Dead Famous
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Dead Famous
Greg Jenner
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Metropolis
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Ben Wilson
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Burning the Books
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Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
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Eat the Buddha
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Barbara Demick
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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Mitchell Zuckoff
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Pure Invention
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Pure Invention
Matt Alt
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The Great Imperial Hangover
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Samir Puri
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
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Amy Stanley
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Waves Across the South
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Sujit Sivasundaram
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God's Shadow
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God's Shadow
Alan Mikhail
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Bloody Brilliant People
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Bloody Brilliant People
Cathy Newman
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Ten Days in Harlem
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Ten Days in Harlem
Simon Hall
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Black Wave
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Black Wave
Kim Ghattas
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Populista
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Will Grant
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Our Best General World History

Sapiens
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Yuval Noah Harari
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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
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A History of the World in 21 Women
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A History of the World in 21 Women
Jenni Murray
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Histories of Nations
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Histories of Nations
Peter Furtado
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Threads of Life
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Threads of Life
Clare Hunter
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The Golden Thread
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The Golden Thread
Kassia St Clair
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The Great Cities in History
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The Great Cities in History
John Julius Norwich
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Waves Across the South
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Waves Across the South
Sujit Sivasundaram
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Pale Rider
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Pale Rider
Laura Spinney
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Revolutions
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Revolutions
Peter Furtado
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The Boundless Sea
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The Boundless Sea
David Abulafia
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Open
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Johan Norberg
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The Origins of Political Order
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The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
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On Tyranny
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Jerry Brotton
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Our Best African History

The Looting Machine
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The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
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Charlie English
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Exterminate All The Brutes
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Exterminate All The Brutes
Sven Lindqvist
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King Leopold's Ghost
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Adam Hochschild
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Dictatorland
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Dictatorland
Paul Kenyon
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The Scramble For Africa
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The Scramble For Africa
Thomas Pakenham
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The State of Africa
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The State of Africa
Martin Meredith
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A Fistful of Shells
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A Fistful of Shells
Toby Green
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Long Walk To Freedom
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Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela
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The Gardens of Mars
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The Gardens of Mars
John Gimlette
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Africa
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Africa
Richard Dowden
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Do Not Disturb
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Do Not Disturb
Michela Wrong
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The Emperor
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The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Empires in the Sun
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Empires in the Sun
Lawrence James
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Congo
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Congo
David Van Reybrouck
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
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There Was a Country
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There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
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Zulu Rising
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Zulu Rising
Ian Knight
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Our Best American History

Black Spartacus
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Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The Witches
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The Witches
Stacy Schiff
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
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JFK
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JFK
Fredrik Logevall
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One Summer
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One Summer
Bill Bryson
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The American Civil War
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The American Civil War
John Keegan
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Ethel Rosenberg
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Ethel Rosenberg
Anne Sebba
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The Earth is Weeping
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The Earth is Weeping
Peter Cozzens
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff
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The American West
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The American West
Dee Brown
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The British Are Coming
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The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson
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Populista
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Populista
Will Grant
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How to Hide an Empire
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How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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Gimson's Presidents
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Gimson's Presidents
Andrew Gimson
£10.99
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King Richard
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King Richard
Michael Dobbs
£18.99
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The Penguin History Of Latin America
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The Penguin History Of Latin America
Edwin Williamson
£16.99
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The Silk Roads
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£14.99
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A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires, determined the flow of ideas and goods and are now heralding a new dawn in international affairs.
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Our Best Asian History

The Anarchy
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
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The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
£12.99
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Himalaya
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Himalaya
Ed Douglas
£10.99
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
£12.99
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Istanbul
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Istanbul
Bettany Hughes
£12.99
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Vietnam
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Vietnam
Max Hastings
£9.99
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The Great Empires of Asia
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The Great Empires of Asia
Jim Masselos
£10.99
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Genghis Khan
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Genghis Khan
Frank McLynn
£14.99
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Eat the Buddha
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Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
£9.99
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The Opium War
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The Opium War
Julia Lovell
£12.99
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The Korean War
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The Korean War
Max Hastings
£16.99
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The Patient Assassin
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The Patient Assassin
Anita Anand
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Return of a King
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Return of a King
William Dalrymple
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Inglorious Empire
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Inglorious Empire
Shashi Tharoor
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Dispatches
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Dispatches
Michael Herr
£9.99
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Japan
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Japan
Mikiso Hane
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The Great Game
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The Great Game
Peter Hopkirk
£12.99
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
Amy Stanley
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Sea People
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Sea People
Christina Thompson
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Endeavour
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Endeavour
Peter Moore
£12.99
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Australia
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Australia
Phillip Knightley
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The Fatal Shore
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The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes
£12.99
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Sydney
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Sydney
Jan Morris
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Terra Nullius
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Terra Nullius
Sven Lindqvist
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Dark Emu
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Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe
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Thicker Than Water
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Thicker Than Water
Cal Flyn
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The Commonwealth of Thieves
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The Commonwealth of Thieves
Thomas Keneally
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Batavia's Graveyard
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Batavia's Graveyard
Mike Dash
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The Palace Letters
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The Palace Letters
Professor Jenny Hocking
£14.99
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Pacific
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Pacific
Philip Hatfield
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The Great Race
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The Great Race
David Hill
£10.99
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Aboriginal Australians
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Aboriginal Australians
Stephen Muecke
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Flinders
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Flinders
Rob Mundle
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Our Best European History

Antwerp
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Michael Pye
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The Shortest History of Europe
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John Hirst
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Afropean
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Johny Pitts
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Lotharingia
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Lotharingia
Simon Winder
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
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Meriel Schindler
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The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
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Last Days in Old Europe
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Last Days in Old Europe
Richard Bassett
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The Habsburgs
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The Habsburgs
Andrew Wheatcroft
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Vanished Kingdoms
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Vanished Kingdoms
Norman Davies
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To Hell and Back
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To Hell and Back
Ian Kershaw
£14.99
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Reformation
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Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch
£18.99
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In Europe
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In Europe
Geert Mak
£12.99
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The Inheritance of Rome
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The Inheritance of Rome
Chris Wickham
£14.99
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The Pursuit of Power
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The Pursuit of Power
Richard J. Evans
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The Great Sea
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The Great Sea
David Abulafia
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The Pursuit of Glory
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The Pursuit of Glory
Tim Blanning
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Europe's Tragedy
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Europe's Tragedy
Peter H. Wilson
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Agents of Empire
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Agents of Empire
Noel Malcolm
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Our Best Middle Eastern History

A Line in the Sand
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James Barr
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Orientalism
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
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Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Babylon
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Paul Kriwaczek
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Black Wave
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Black Wave
Kim Ghattas
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Arabs
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Arabs
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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The Story of the Jews
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The Story of the Jews
Simon Schama
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Turkey
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Norman Stone
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Revolutionary Iran
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Revolutionary Iran
Michael Axworthy
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The Arabs
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Eugene Rogan
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A History of the Middle East
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A History of the Middle East
Peter Mansfield
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Islamic Empires
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Islamic Empires
Justin Marozzi
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The Islamic Enlightenment
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The Islamic Enlightenment
Christopher de Bellaigue
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A History of the Arab Peoples
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A History of the Arab Peoples
Malise Ruthven
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The Great War for Civilisation
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The Great War for Civilisation
Robert Fisk
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The Fall of the Ottomans
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The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Gerard Russell
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Icebound
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Andrea Pitzer
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Accidental Gods
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Anna Della Subin
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Kingdom of Characters
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Kingdom of Characters
Jing Tsu
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
Edward Shawcross
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Simon Winchester
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Rebels Against the Raj
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Ramachandra Guha
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Diplomatic Gifts
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Paul Brummell
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A History of Masculinity
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Ivan Jablonka
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Ten Cities that Led the World
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Ten Cities that Led the World
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In Search of Mary Seacole
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For the Freedom of Zion
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Guy MacLean Rogers
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The Global Merchants
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Joseph Sassoon
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The Lion House
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Christopher de Bellaigue
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Making History
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Richard Cohen
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It's a Continent
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Femina
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